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When Jacob awoke from
his sleep, he exclaimed, "Truly, the LORD is in this spot,
although I did not know it!" In solemn wonder he cried out:
"How awesome is this shrine! This is nothing else but an
abode of God, and that is the gateway to heaven!" [GEN 28:16-17] When they arrived at
Goren-ha-atad, which is beyond the Jordan,
they held there a very great and solemn memorial service; and
Joseph observed seven days of mourning for his father. When the Canaanites who inhabited the land saw the mourning at Goren-ha-atad, they said, "This is a solemn funeral the
Egyptians are having." That is why the place was named Abel-mizraim.
It is beyond the Jordan. [GEN 50:10-11]
Now, when Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by
way of the Philistines' land, though this was the nearest; for he
thought, should the people see that they would have to fight, they
might change their minds and return to Egypt. Instead, he rerouted
them toward the Red Sea by way of the desert road. In battle array
the Israelites marched out of Egypt. Moses also took Joseph's
bones along, for Joseph had made the Israelites swear solemnly
that, when God should come to them, they would carry his bones
away with them. [EX 13:17-19]
"This shall be an everlasting ordinance for you: on the
tenth day of the seventh month every one of you, whether a native
or a resident alien, shall mortify himself and shall do no work.
Since on this day atonement is made for you to make you clean, so
that you may be cleansed of all your sins before the LORD, by
everlasting ordinance it shall be a most solemn sabbath for you,
on which you must mortify yourselves. This atonement is to be made
by the priest who has been anointed and ordained to the priesthood
in succession to his father. He shall wear the linen garments, the
sacred vestments, and make atonement for the sacred sanctuary, the
meeting tent and the altar, as well as for the priests and all the
people of the community. This, then, shall be an everlasting
ordinance for you: once a year atonement shall be made for all the
sins of the Israelites." Thus was it done, as the LORD had
commanded Moses. [LEV 16:29-34]
The LORD said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites: The
fifteenth day of this seventh month is the LORD'S feast of Booths,
which shall continue for seven days. On the first day there shall
be a sacred assembly, and you shall do no sort of work. For seven
days you shall offer an oblation to the LORD, and on the eighth
day you shall again hold a sacred assembly and offer an oblation
to the LORD. On that solemn closing you shall do no sort of work."
[LEV 23:33-36]
The LORD said to Moses: "Speak to the Israelites and tell
them: When a man (or a woman) solemnly takes the nazirite vow to
dedicate himself to the LORD, he shall abstain from wine and
strong drink; he may neither drink wine vinegar, other vinegar, of
any kind of grape juice, nor eat either fresh or dried grapes. As
long as he is a nazirite he shall not eat anything of the produce
of the vine; not even unripe grapes or grapeskins. While he is
under the nazirite vow, no razor shall touch his hair. Until the
period of his dedication to the LORD is over, he shall be sacred,
and shall let the hair of his head grow freely." [Taken from
NUM 6:1-5]
The LORD also said to Moses and Aaron: "How long will this
wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings
of the Israelites against me. Tell them: By my life, says the
LORD, I will do to you just what I have heard you say. Here in the
desert shall your dead bodies fall. Of all your men of twenty
years or more, registered in the census, who grumbled against me,
not one shall enter the land where I solemnly swore to settle you,
except Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, son of Nun. Your
little ones, however, who you said would be taken as booty, I will
bring in, and they shall appreciate the land you spurned. But as
for you, your bodies shall fall here in the desert, here where
your children must wander for forty years, suffering for your
faithlessness, till the last of you lies dead in the desert. Forty
days you spent in scouting the land; forty years shall you suffer
for your crimes: one year for each day. Thus you will realize what
it means to oppose me. I, the LORD, have sworn to do this to all
this wicked community that conspired against me: here in the
desert they shall die to the last man." [NUM 14:26-35]
"On the eighth day you shall hold a solemn meeting, and do
no sort of work." [Taken from NUM 29:35]
For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh
there shall be a solemn meeting in honor of the LORD, your God; on
that day you shall not do any sort of work. [Taken from DEUT 16:8]
"When you make a vow to the LORD, your God, you shall not
delay in fulfilling it; otherwise you will be held guilty, for the
LORD, your God, is strict in requiring it of you. Should you
refrain from making a vow, you will not be held guilty. But you
must keep your solemn word and fulfill the votive offering you
have freely promised to the LORD". [DEUT 23:22-24]
Then the Israelites asked, "Are there any among all the
tribes of Israel who did not come up to the LORD for the
assembly?" For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who
did not go up to the LORD at Mizpah should be put to death without
fail. [JUDG 21:5]
Samuel was displeased when they asked for a king to judge them.
He prayed to the LORD, however, who said in answer: "Grant
the people's every request. It is not you they reject, they are
rejecting me as their king. As they have treated me constantly
from the day I brought them up from Egypt to this day, deserting
me and worshiping strange gods, so do they treat you too. Now
grant their request; but at the same time, warn them solemnly and
inform them of the rights of the king who will rule them." [1SAM
8:6-9]
On the second day, the family heads of the whole people and
also the priests and the Levites gathered around Ezra the scribe
and examined the words of the law more closely. They found it
written in the law prescribed by the LORD through Moses that the
Israelites must dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh
month; and that they should have this proclamation made throughout
their cities and in Jerusalem: "Go out into the hill country
and bring in branches of olive trees, oleasters, myrtle, palm, and
other leafy trees, to make booths, as the law prescribes."
The people went out and brought in branches with which they made
booths for themselves, on the roof of their houses, in their
courtyards, in the courts of the house of God, and in the open
spaces of the Water Gate and the Gate of Ephraim. Thus the entire
assembly of the returned exiles made booths and dwelt in them. Now
the Israelites had done nothing of this sort from the days of
Jeshua, son of Nun, until this occasion; therefore there was very
great joy. Ezra read from the book of the law of God day after
day, from the first day to the last. They kept the feast for seven
days, and the solemn assembly on the eighth day, as was required.
[NEH 8:13-18]
Simon sent for the remains of his brother Jonathan, and buried
him in Modein, the city of his fathers. All Israel bewailed him
with solemn lamentation, mourning over him for many days. Then
Simon erected over the tomb of his father and his brothers a
monument of stones, polished front and back, and raised high
enough to be seen at a distance. [1MACC 13:25-27]
After Heliodorus had offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made most solemn vows to him who had spared his life, he bade Onias farewell, and returned with his soldiers to the king. Before all men he gave witness to the deeds of the most high God that he had seen with his own eyes.
[2MACC 3:35-36]
Judas pressed the pursuit vigorously, putting the sinners to
the sword and destroying as many as thirty thousand men. Timothy
himself fell into the hands of the men under Dositheus and
Sosipater; but with great cunning, he asked them to spare his life
and let him go, because he had in his power the parents and
relatives of many of them, and could make these suffer. When he
had fully confirmed his solemn pledge to restore them unharmed,
they let him go for the sake of saving their brethren. [2MACC 12:23-25]
Sing joyfully to God our strength; shout in triumph to the God
of Jacob! Take up a melody, sound the timbrel, the sweet-sounding
harp and lyre. Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon,
on our solemn feast. For this is a law in Israel, an edict of the
God of Jacob, Who made it a decree for Joseph when he came out of
the land of Egypt. [PS 81:2-6]
Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light for my path. I make a solemn vow to keep your just edicts.
[PS 119:105-106]
With his every deed [David] offered thanks to God Most High, in
words of praise. With his whole being he loved his Maker and daily
had his praises sung; He added beauty to the feasts and solemnized
the seasons of each year With string music before the altar,
providing sweet melody for the psalms So that when the Holy Name
was praised, before daybreak the sanctuary would resound. [Taken
from SIRACH 47:8-10]
(Therefore, prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to
the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys: Thus says the
Lord GOD:) With jealous fury I speak, because you have borne the
reproach of the nations. Therefore do I solemnly swear that your
neighboring nations shall bear their own reproach. As for you,
mountains of Israel, you shall grow branches and bear fruit for my
people Israel, for they shall soon return. [EZEK 36:6-8]
[Jesus said,] "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,'
will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the
will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me on that day,
'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive
out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?'
Then I will declare to them solemnly, 'I never knew you. Depart
from me, you evildoers.'" [Taken from MT 7:21-23]
Now since it was preparation day, in order that the bodies
might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for the sabbath day
of that week was a solemn one, the Jews asked Pilate that their
legs be broken and they be taken down. So the soldiers came and
broke the legs of the first and then of the other one who was
crucified with Jesus. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he
was already dead, they did not break his legs, but one soldier
thrust his lance into his side, and immediately blood and water
flowed out. An eyewitness has testified, and his testimony is
true; he knows that he is speaking the truth, so that you also may
(come to) believe. For this happened so that the scripture passage
might be fulfilled: "Not a bone of it will be broken."
And again another passage says: "They will look upon him whom
they have pierced." [JN 19:31-37]
"But now I know that none of you to whom I preached the
kingdom during my travels will ever see my face again. And so I
solemnly declare to you this day that I am not responsible for the
blood of any of you, for I did not shrink from proclaiming to you
the entire plan of God." [ACTS 20:25-27]
When day came, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by
oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul. There were
more than forty who formed this conspiracy. They went to the chief
priests and elders and said, "We have bound ourselves by a
solemn oath to taste nothing until we have killed Paul. You,
together with the Sanhedrin, must now make an official request to
the commander to have him bring him down to you, as though you
meant to investigate his case more thoroughly. We on our part are
prepared to kill him before he arrives." [ACTS 23:12-15]
I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer
your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your
spiritual worship. Do not conform yourselves to this age but be
transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what
is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect. For by
the grace given to me I tell everyone among you not to think of
himself more highly than one ought to think, but to think soberly,
each according to the measure of faith that God has apportioned.
For as in one body we have many parts, and all the parts do not
have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ
and individually parts of one another. Since we have gifts that
differ according to the grace given to us, let us exercise them:
if prophecy, in proportion to the faith; if ministry, in
ministering; if one is a teacher, in teaching; if one exhorts, in
exhortation; if one contributes, in generosity; if one is over
others, with diligence; if one does acts of mercy, with
cheerfulness. [ROM 12:1-8]
Do not be led astray: "Bad company corrupts good morals." Become sober as you ought and stop sinning. For some have no knowledge of God; I say this to your shame. [1COR
15:33-34]
This is the will of God, your holiness: that you refrain from
immorality, that each of you know how to acquire a wife for
himself in holiness and honor, not in lustful passion as do the
Gentiles who do not know God; not to take advantage of or exploit
a brother in this matter, for the Lord is an avenger in all these
things, as we told you before and solemnly affirmed. For God did
not call us to impurity but to holiness. Therefore, whoever
disregards this, disregards not a human being but God, who (also)
gives his Holy Spirit to you. [1THES 4:3-8]
Concerning times and seasons, brothers, you have no need for
anything to be written to you. For you yourselves know very well
that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night. When
people are saying, "Peace and security," then sudden
disaster comes upon them, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman,
and they will not escape. But you, brothers, are not in darkness,
for that day to overtake you like a thief. For all of you are
children of the light and children of the day. We are not of the
night or of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as the rest do,
but let us stay alert and sober. Those who sleep go to sleep at
night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night. But since we
are of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of
faith and love and the helmet that is hope for salvation. For God
did not destine us for wrath, but to gain salvation through our
Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake
or asleep we may live together with him. Therefore, encourage one
another and build one another up, as indeed you do. [1THES 5:1-11]
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in
his great mercy gave us a new birth to a living hope through the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that
is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you
who by the power of God are safeguarded through faith, to a
salvation that is ready to be revealed in the final time. In this
you rejoice, although now for a little while you may have to
suffer through various trials, so that the genuineness of your
faith, more precious than gold that is perishable even though
tested by fire, may prove to be for praise, glory, and honor at
the revelation of Jesus Christ. Although you have not seen him you
love him; even though you do not see him now yet believe in him,
you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy, as you attain
the goal of (your) faith, the salvation of your souls. Concerning
this salvation, prophets who prophesied about the grace that was
to be yours searched and investigated it, investigating the time
and circumstances that the Spirit of Christ within them indicated
when it testified in advance to the sufferings destined for Christ
and the glories to follow them. It was revealed to them that they
were serving not themselves but you with regard to the things that
have now been announced to you by those who preached the good news
to you (through) the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into
which angels longed to look. Therefore, gird up the loins of your
mind, live soberly, and set your hopes completely on the grace to
be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Like obedient
children, do not act in compliance with the desires of your former
ignorance but, as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in
every aspect of your conduct, for it is written, "Be holy
because I (am) holy." Now if you invoke as Father him who
judges impartially according to each one's works, conduct
yourselves with reverence during the time of your sojourning,
realizing that you were ransomed from your futile conduct, handed
on by your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or
gold but with the precious blood of Christ [Taken from 1PT 1:3-19]
The end of all things is at hand. Therefore, be serious and
sober for prayers. [1PT 4:7]
Be sober and vigilant. Your opponent the devil is prowling
around like a roaring lion looking for (someone) to devour. Resist
him, steadfast in faith, knowing that your fellow believers
throughout the world undergo the same sufferings. The God of all
grace who called you to his eternal glory through Christ (Jesus)
will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you after
you have suffered a little. To him be dominion forever. Amen. [1PT
5:8-11]
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